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Greening Brazil
Environmental Activism in State and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2010
The Case for Centralized Federalism and its sister volume The Case for Decentralized Federalism are the outcome of the Federalism Redux Project, created to stimulate a serious and useful conversation on federalism in Canada. They provide the vocabulary and arguments needed to articulate the case for...
Our Lost Declaration
America's Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
New York Times bestselling author and committed constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee reveals the little-known stories behind the Founder's takedown of a tyrannical king and the forgotten document that created America.
There is perhaps no more powerful sentence in human history, written...
Local Democracy in Modern Mexico
a study in participatory methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
This in-depth study of local government in Mexico raises issues which go far beyond the territory it covers. It will be of absorbing interest to all students of local democracy and participatory methods, not only in Latin America, but in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere,...
Accountability Politics
Power and Voice in Rural Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? Embedding accountability into the state is an inherently uneven, partial and contested process. Campaigns for public accountability often win limited concessions at best, but they can leave cracks in the system that serve...
Gender and Corruption
Historical Roots and New Avenues for Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The link between gender and corruption has been studied since the late 1990s. Debates have been heated and scholars accused of bringing forward stereotypical beliefs about women as the “fair” sex. Policy proposals for bringing more women to office have been criticized for promoting unrealistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Are the factors that initiate democratization the same as those that maintain a democracy already established? The scholarly and policy debates over this question have never been more urgent. In 1970, Dankwart A. Rustow's clairvoyant article "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model"...
American Public Opinion, Advocacy, and Policy in Congress
What the Public Wants and What It Gets
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Between one election and the next, members of Congress introduce thousands of bills. What determines which become law? Is it the public? Do we have government 'of the people, by the people, for the people?' Or is it those who have the resources to organize and pressure government who get what they...
by Kerry Haynie
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Has black inclusion in the political process changed political institutions and led to more black influence in the governmental process? How do African American legislators balance racial interests with broader issues of government? And how is their effectiveness subjectively perceived and objectively...
Austerity Policies
Bad Ideas in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book takes up the problems of social policy, state intervention and support in the hard times of austerity introduced by the Coalition government 2010-15, and continued under the Conservative government today. At a time when the economy is growing and pay levels finally rising, the necessity...
by A.G. Roderick
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Are you sick of Republicans and Democrats? Polls show that the vast majority of Americans are tired of the two party system and its trappings. Although it seems that we are doomed to be led by one party or the other in perpetuity, Two Tyrants argues that the right reforms could alter the course of...
Countries at the Crossroads 2011
An Analysis of Democratic Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Countries at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Democratic Governance evaluates government performance in seventy strategically important countries from across the globe, including emerging market countries and at-risk states. The in-depth comparative analyses and quantitative ratings—examining Accountability...
Democracy's Good Name
The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most remarkable developments in history: the rapid rise of democracy around the world. In 1900, only ten countries were democracies and by 1975 there were only 30. Today, 119 of the world's 190 countries have adopted this form of government, and it is...
A Better Place on Earth
The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
In British Columbia, like most of the world, the wealth of the richest one percent has grown exponentially in recent decades, while the majority have found their incomes stagnant or even declining. The top 10 percent in BC now hold 56.2 percent of the wealth, a greater share than anywhere else in...